LReiding
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LReiding
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My human rights don't end where your fears begin. I speak with my present level of ignorance. (Private account)




🇺🇦🇪🇺 Kallas calling it out directly, no sugarcoating anymore "Russia is trying to get those territories they haven't been able to conquer militarily in 12 years around the negotiation table. It's the Russian playbook of negotiations: they are demanding something that has never been theirs. This is a trap we should not fall into." - Kaja Kallas 🇪🇪 That hits HARD because it spells out exactly what’s been happening, failing on the battlefield, then trying to lock in gains through talks And with Ukraine holding the line the way it has, that strategy just looks weaker every time it gets exposed like this






Trump stiller "uspiseligt" ultimatum for sikkerhedsgarantier til Ukraine nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/2026-03…





Yesterday, an entire planeload of Russian Duma members were given a tour of US government buildings, including Capitol Hill. Here, Russians are seen roaming freely and documenting everything with their western smartphones.










BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt" "People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union. "$250 billion to $1 trillion short." "This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension." "California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it." How we got here: "California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in. $250 billion to $1 trillion short. If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits. There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services." Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)















